By JOANNE SEIFF True Confessions: When I was a kid, I hated Passover. Many years, my maternal grandparents took a train from Brooklyn to visit us for the holiday. While the distance from New York to Virginia wasn’t far, the cultural and religious divide was huge.

By RON CSILAG TORONTO (JTA) – In this rendition of the Passover story, the Children of Israel do not play ice hockey or drink kosher l’Pesach maple syrup.But the first-ever Canadian Haggadah does have a distinctly Canuck vibe.

By GABE FRIEDMAN (JTA) The billionaires’ club isn’t as exclusive as it used to be.Recently Forbes released its 29th annual list of every billionaire on the planet, and it features a record 1,826 people, or 181 more than last year.